First -- I received your email. :) I haven't had a chance to listen to the recording yet (I'm waiting for coffee -- was up 'til 2 fighting elven death lasers), so I'll listen and write back when I'm more coherent.
I hope the recovery is still going well! I've been assuming that no added news is good news, after your last post.
I have a spreadsheet I've been building of possible bulbs for every option. CRI is one of the first columns. :)
I like the idea of indirect lighting, but I'm not sure I can get it bright enough w/ only 8' ceilings. If you work on a bigger oil or acrylic painting you need more even light than is easy to get from task lighting, and it has to be indirect or coming down from above (working vertically). Easy to achieve over 1000 lux that way with suspended fluorescents... but not so nice with standard ceilings. If you have ideas on how to achieve really high lumens with indirect lighting without high or angled ceilings to work with, I'm all ears. (I'm thinking 1000 lux general in the painting area; 1500-2000 is recommended for detail work, but that's where task lighting comes in).
I am thinking of something like your rail set-up. We planned on two switched outlets in the ceiling, and adding blocking to support a rail or pipe suspended six inches below it, for clamp lights. I was going back and forth about whether ot just use two banks of track lights, but really, if I wire outlets than the wires and boxes are *there* if I ever want to change it, and that's the obnoxious part. Do you have a picture of your clamp light rail int the studio?
Oh -- oddities of this space. Best way I can think of for indirect lighting with track lights is to attach them to the *wall*, but... I designed myself out of that kind of wall space. My bank of north windows go *almost* to the ceiling, with just enough room for their header.
(That's quite the pre-coffee wall of text, but I've been engrossed in this for so long it just kind of pours out...)
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I hope the recovery is still going well! I've been assuming that no added news is good news, after your last post.
I have a spreadsheet I've been building of possible bulbs for every option. CRI is one of the first columns. :)
I like the idea of indirect lighting, but I'm not sure I can get it bright enough w/ only 8' ceilings. If you work on a bigger oil or acrylic painting you need more even light than is easy to get from task lighting, and it has to be indirect or coming down from above (working vertically). Easy to achieve over 1000 lux that way with suspended fluorescents... but not so nice with standard ceilings. If you have ideas on how to achieve really high lumens with indirect lighting without high or angled ceilings to work with, I'm all ears. (I'm thinking 1000 lux general in the painting area; 1500-2000 is recommended for detail work, but that's where task lighting comes in).
I am thinking of something like your rail set-up. We planned on two switched outlets in the ceiling, and adding blocking to support a rail or pipe suspended six inches below it, for clamp lights. I was going back and forth about whether ot just use two banks of track lights, but really, if I wire outlets than the wires and boxes are *there* if I ever want to change it, and that's the obnoxious part. Do you have a picture of your clamp light rail int the studio?
Oh -- oddities of this space. Best way I can think of for indirect lighting with track lights is to attach them to the *wall*, but... I designed myself out of that kind of wall space. My bank of north windows go *almost* to the ceiling, with just enough room for their header.
(That's quite the pre-coffee wall of text, but I've been engrossed in this for so long it just kind of pours out...)